No better than ass-wipes

Don't we all need it...money? To some, its one of the only things in life which we love and need at the same time.To the rest it is something that we most definitely need but it wouldn't be any harm if we had more of it. To me...its no better than ass wipes.

What is money in the first place. How did it come about?...the way i look at it, it is value we put on everything that we can possibly evaluate. It is absolutely virtual. Although to most ppl it is as concrete as it can be but i beg to differ. Money has value because we put value on it. It is us humans who came up with a plan to reserve gold and distribute its value on highly sophisticated printed papers so that everyone can have a share of the gold. But why do we even do that in the first place? What good comes out of it?

Some time back i engaged in a debate with my mother(actually it turned out to be more of an argument as it went) about how money has destroyed us as humans. I mean think about it. ALL the decadence that we witness has one way or another to do with money. Off course one may say that it is not money itself that has destroyed us but it is the greed of acquiring it that has caused such a decay. But wouldn't the absence of money stop this chaos altogether? A pretty obvious example would be poverty. Lets take Darfur for instance. There are people there who are suffering as hell because the guy who lives in the city has too much to eat. In a wider scope one would find that the reason a man is suffering of poverty is because the other has acquired too much of money that in actual fact the economic balance of the people as a whole has tipped off. Simply put, the only reason there's the poor is because there is the rich or even those who are living comfortably like us. So can a man still be blamed for providing for himself a comfortable life? The need for money for every individual collectively sums up to the lack of providence for another man. Hence it has turned to be a dog-eat-dog world and it doesn't take a greedy man to deprive another man.So we can say that it is possible that the very need for money can cause depravity and not only the greed or the love of money.

But i say, why don't we just RID OURSELVES OF MONEY!! That's right kill the very idea of money. Wouldn't life be sweeter without the burden of money? Won't we be able to enjoy life the way we should with the absence of money? We don't realize that our childhood was a blissful time because we had no care of money or acquiring it. The very machinery of education is built for the sake of acquiring money. The distasteful pressures on getting educated and the need to have a so called "good" job is nothing but the drive to acquire money. A man would have a more satisfying life if most of his life he didn't have to worry about making money.My mum said that i'm just a fool rambling about abolishing the "very thing that makes the world go round". "It will never happen...people won't let go of it", she said.

So why won't people get rid of it? The very next day in college i brought this topic up while chatting with a good friend of mine. Summarizing our conversation, we reached a conclusion that ppl won't kill the idea of money simply because we are the most khiasu beings on earth. The very reason why ppl strive, risk their lives or even do something inhumane to acquire money is to ultimately be on top of his fellow man. Lets face it. Most, if not all, can't resist being better off than the other guy. We would need to be able to accept EVERYONE is at the same level if money was to be abolished. The sad truth is not everyone is willing to accept that.

Everyone as equals....i'm sure most of you would recognize that phrase. It is the very backbone of Communism. I admire Karl Marx for coming up with such a utopia but cursed are those in history who propagated and in turn distorted his vision, such as Hitler and the Soviet Union. It is clear evidence that man just can't live as equals. It is a bitter truth but the truth nonetheless. Man is corrupt.

Me being an annoying defiant creature still can't bear the existence of currency and money but killing that idea is easier said than done. Thus till that beautiful day comes when man can finally forget about money...it remains an unscratchable itch.